Roost it far

I don’t think trading out our best players is the answer. Keep drafting, chop the deadwood, get a new coach. Trading JVR, Rivers, McVee is going backwards. A new coach will want the best players secured. The chances of trading Petracca or Oliver or both is pretty slim in my book. Viney isn’t the issue the lack of cohesion is the problem

I don’t think it’s a player issue, I think it’s just time for a new set of eyes. We have talent on the list. Goodwin likely goes at some point in the second half of the season unless we pull it together.

This game could well become an embarrassment.

Apparently football has little if anything ti do with love, in fact I’ll go as far as saying it has nothing to do with love. As far as I can see we play the way we train, soccer balls, laughter, a few hugs and away we go. In all seriousness we are alarmingly bad atm. Goodwin has probably got 6 weeks left as coach. Richardson can go now. I was extremely confident preseason so I’m feeling a little let down. Langford looked good, jeez I hope Lindsay is ok. Viney is done by the looks of it and 4 years on a new contract, oh boy wow wee! Petty has gone backwards but worst is our clearance game, we’re getting smashed.

Dee’s by 17 in a rather uninspiring affair.

Enjoying Harmes endeavour, really seems to have lifted his intensity

You play Howes because we’re clearly trying to make him a defender and Turner needs forward time at Casey to find his mojo which appears he left in 2024.

Great stuff, love it.

Wasn’t Georgiades coming to us?

2023 was the one that got away, that will hurt for ever.

I have to agree, just cut the life coach talk. You don’t here Kingsley talk about love, he talks about winning

No

Can’t wait for McVee to be back

Ok, I was going to say that’s not serious but with what we know it’s not great. Thats not his first

What’s up with Spargo?

That’s some good work. Notice how forgiving I am atm. Don’t get comfortable my good mood won’t last

I think we’d be playing the same 21 with potentially/maybe a couple of difference’s. Once May, Pickett and McVee are back I doubt they’d be any, maybe 1 tops.

I loved Jackson

I don’t know anything of Jamie Graham but it’s a hard no to the rest.

You gotta blame someone!

Maybe regarding Max. Not all teams play with a dominant ruck but clearly North do. GWS had Briggs out and we almost beat them so clearly some clubs are going with a big, strong ruckman. The thing about Sunday was that Max wasn’t just beaten he was flogged, I thought his second efforts were very poor and countless times Xerri got him at these efforts, that’s on Max. Regarding playing beyond Max, clearly that’s a hole we have to fill but I’m a believer in continuing to add mids and recruiting another clubs second or third ruck ala Meek at Hawthorn. I’m confident the club will do that when Max announces his retirement. We’ve got a strong under 24 list demographic. Yes we want to push for success whilst Petracca, Oliver and lever are still playing but those guys have got 3-4 more good years. Let’s keep recruiting how we have been and there’s no reason success won’t follow. For mine you now to stack your list with 12-14 really solid runners/mids/flankers who can kick. We’re on our way here in my opinion. I also believe that had we had Pickett, May and McVee available we may well be 2-0, we certainly wouldn’t be 0-2. It ain’t time to panic but we do need a win this weekend which is going to be tough.

That has got to be the biggest non story of the year thus far. There’s no rush, we have Pert working away at Caulfield and a solid interim CEO. I’d much prefer we take time than rush an appointment to appease these clowns. Wow wee, the football media is a total clown show.

Are you comparing that to our first 2 games? I thought we chipped around more against GWS and were far better at moving the ball. Against North we were stagnant forward of the ball and watched in horror as we did exactly what we were told we wouldn’t be doing which was bombing it down the line. I wake up to Combden marking the ball!!

Petracca if we want him to stay will play to at least 35-36. Personally I’d make him captain at years end IF the players were in. Oliver will likely do the same. Lever’s got good legs in him so I think we’ll be ok for leadership. Players coming in now will have some or all of Petracca, Oliver, Lever, Sparrow, Langdon etc for half their careers and guys like Windsor, Lindsay, Langford have plenty of leadership capacity. We just need to keep getting up the draft board and trade and recruit where possible. Personally I think we’re in a strong position. If the team falls over this year I’d expect Goodwin to leave but if we can win a final or 4 who knows.

Our top 10 young players are miles ahead of the Pies. Savvy recruiting, player trades and pick swaps when Tassie come in will see us stay thereabouts.